Turpentine-cup.



E. A. MoKOY.

v TURPENTINE CUP. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1907.

Patented. Dec. 8,1908.

' m: NORRIS rsrsns co, WASHINGTON, n c

glwwontoz EDWIN ANDERSON McKOY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TURPENTINE-CUP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1908.

Application filed June 10, 1907. Serial No. 378,203.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN A. MoKoY, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inTurpentine-Cups; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to improvements in means for gathering turpentinefrom trees and particularly to the construction of the agnon upon whichthe sap falls and from w 'ch the cup is suspended and into which the sapis directed from the apron.

The main object of the invention is to provide an apron of improvedconstruction so shaped at its lower edge as to provide means forsuspending a cup therefrom.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certainnovel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will behereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved cupand apron. Fi 2 is a view in perspective of a slightly di erentembodiment of the invention as applied to the apron. Fig. 3 is anotherslightly difierent embodiment of the improved apron.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views.

The improved apron forming a part of the present invention comprises asubstantially plain body portion having upwardly extending convergingflanges 11 formed at its opposite ends and either with or without theconcave upper edge 12, as shown, such concave edge being desirable. inthe majority of cases to conform to the curvature of the tree but notbeing essential to the successful and satisfactory embodiment of theinvention.

At the lower edge a pair of longitudinally disposed extensions 13 areprovided which said extensions may be formed as shown in Fig. 1 bysimply producing longitudinally disposed slots 14 or, as shown in Fig.2, by roducing the slots 14 and turning down the Eange 15 or, as shownin Fig. 3, by employing a wire or like device and rolling the edge as 16about the wire with the opposite extremities of the wire extendinglongitudinally beyond the ends of the apron at its lower edge.

For use in association With the apron above described a cup orreceptacle 17 is employed having upstanding arms 18 carried thereby andformed in any approved manner as integral with or rigidly secured to thereceptacle, and provided with any approved form of means for engagingwith the extensions 13, as the hooks 19 shown, the specific hook shownin Fig. 1, such hook being preferably employed from economy, but notfrom necessity.

It will be understood that the upper edge of the apron is seated in theturpentine bearing tree in the usual manner by forming an incision inthe tree and inserting the upper edge of the apron therein with theapron disposed preferably at an inclination with the shorter edge thelower and with the cup or receptacle 17 suspended therefrom and belowthe apron in position to receive drippings from the edge.

What I claim is 1. In a device of the class described, an aproncomprising a substantially plain body ortion, converging upstandingflanges formed at opposite ends of and terminating at a point upon thebody of the apron, extensions formed at the opposite ends of the shorterside of the apron, and a receptacle provided with means adapted toengage the extensions.

2. In a device of the class described, an apron comprising asubstantially plain body portion, extensions formed at the opposite endsof the lower side of the apron produced by the interposition oflongitudinally extending slots, and a receptacle provided with meansadapted to enter the slots and engage upon the extensions.

3. In a device of the class described, an apron comprising asubstantially plain body portion, a ange formed upon the lower side ofthe apron, said apron provided with slots projected from opposite endssubstantially it the curvature between the body and the an e.

L In a device of the class described, an apron com rising asubstantially lain body portion, a ange formed upon the ower edge of thebody portion, and extensions provided upon the opposite ends of theflange by the interposition of cut away portions of the apron fromopposite ends.

5. In a device of the class. described, an a ron provided withrojections formed at t e extremities of the ower edge by theinterposition of cut away portions of the apron at op osite ends.

6. n a device of the class described, an apron comprising asubstantially plain body portion having a concave upper engaging edge,converging flanges formed upon the opposite ends of the a roll andterminating at a point upon the b0 of said a r011 short of the lowerlongitudinal edge, an extended 10 engaging members formed adjacent the}lower longitudinal corners by the interposition of slots projectedsubstantially parallel with the lower longitudinal edge.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWIN ANDERSON M'OKOY. 'Witnesse's:

A. W. W001), Sn, m E. WOOD.

